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Albany Twin Brings the Time Warp to Berkeley

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By Adrienne Sontag-Murphy

It is a stormy night. Brad and Janet’s car is broken down and there’s a light over at the Frank–N–Furter place. At this point, the crowd has pulled out their newspaper and squirt guns, impatiently awaiting the arrival of the sweet transvestite from the city of Transsexual, Transylvania. 38 years after the King’s Road production at the Royal Court Theatre, London in 1973, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the longest running theatrical release in filmmaking history. Soon after, the play was made into a low budget, campy flick that stole the hearts of millions.

Sketch Fest 2013 Features Comedy Superstar Galifanakis

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By Emma Koger

In 2001 Cole Stratton, David Owen, and Janet Varney came together to organize Sketchfest, a famed comedy show, for the first time. This year the twelfth annual Sketchfest took place in San Francisco from January 24 to February 10. The original purpose of the festival was to showcase six local Bay Area sketch comedy groups and increase local recognition. The six groups, The Fresh Robots, Kasper Hauser, The Meehan Brothers, Please Leave the Bronx, Totally False People, and White Noise Radio Theatre, performed in the first ever Sketchfest in January of 2002.

Vagina Monologues Inspires An Impassioned Desire for Equality

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By Ashley Alexander and Allisa Guther

Every year there are thousands of performances of Eve Ensler’s seminal play The Vagina Monologues — and every year, Berkeley High School gives the community a chance to see the play performed, astoundingly, by teenagers. This year’s production is truly inspiring. BHS is one of the only high schools in the country to show this influential and relevant piece, and it has been doing so for almost a decade. The Vagina Monologues is not only an entertaining annual show, but also a very important work advocating for women’s rights and equality around the world.

Berkeley Has Bountiful Music Scene

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By John MacKay

Every night throughout the East Bay, there is live music being played at small and little known venues. If you know where to look, they’re easy to find. Here are some very excellent yet unknown music venues that you should visit around the East Bay.

Warm Bodies Plot Twists Are Not So Unpredictable

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By Louisa Mascuch

Many said that the zombie genre of movies was, well, dead, but after its recent resurgence with shows like The Walking Dead and video games like Left For Dead, zombies may be the new vampires. And this time, the zombies get a romance of their own.

Flix Fix: 2/8/13

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By Emeric Laverne

I have always been a huge fan of films and am in the midst of a quest to watch every great film out there. I’ve got a long journey ahead, but have made a lot of progress in the past year. I would love to share some of the rare jewels I’ve come across, movies that you may not have heard about or thought to watch. Every two weeks I’ll reveal a couple and rave about them a little.

1. The Shawshank Redemption

Dominatrix Lends Novel Perspective On Her Job

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By Ivy Oleson

I turn on Skype at 8:20 AM and waiting for me is a friend request from a dominatrix, Isabella Sinclaire. Her profile consists of a pixelated picture of her in a corset with a choker around her neck and her status: “more fetishes, less computers.”
First, let me backtrack: this year I play a dominatrix in Berkeley High School’s annual production of “The Vagina Monologues” by Eve Ensler.

I wanted to talk to a real sex worker about the part, because all of the monologues are based on interviews Ensler conducted with real women. I also wanted to be sure that I was doing this woman justice.

Short Story Contest Winners

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First Place Winner: Noah Bloomfield

Pearls of Wisdom: 2/8/13

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By Zoë Pearl Steckler

Watching the Golden Globes from four to eight PM (of course I have to watch the Red Carpet) is an annual tradition I hold sacred. The Golden Globes, for those of you who do not indulge in four straight hours watching celebrities eating dinner while wearing designer gowns and accepting awards like I do, is a televised award ceremony for television and movies, much like the Oscars. The winners are decided by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and the event takes place in Los Angeles.

Screenagers Reveals Diverse Teenage Talent

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By Justine Cullinane

The Bay Area is a lively hub of countless creative and artistic minds, specializing in visual, musical, and performing arts. One reason for this is the myriad of opportunities that our community provides for youth in the form of programs, internships, and specialized education. Every year, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive offers an internship to a number of students in Communication Arts and Sciences (CAS). This year there were ten student interns, one mentor, Hila Avraham, and one student mentor, Josh Mizrahi, a CAS senior.

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